different between bloat vs tympany

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”), akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /blo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

bloat (third-person singular simple present bloats, present participle bloating, simple past and past participle bloated)

1. to cause to become distended.
2. (intransitive) (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
3. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
4. (intransitive) to become distended; to swell up.

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5. to fill with vanity or conceit.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Dr. Davenant

     Encourage him, and bloat him up with Praise

6. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.

Translations

Noun

bloat (plural bloats)

1. Distention of the abdomen from death.
2. (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.

   Synonym: ruminal tympany

3. (figuratively) Wasteful use of space or other resources.

   Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.

4. (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.

Translations

Adjective

bloat (comparative more bloat, superlative most bloat)

1. (obsolete) bloated.

References

Anagrams

• Balto-, Blato, balot

English

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek ???????? (túmpanon).

Pronunciation

• Homophones: timpani, tympani

Noun

tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)

1. The sound made by beating a drum.
2. (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

     Thine's a tympany of sense.

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